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I’m bothered by the battle over the word “Hacker”. I’m most bothered by it because I consider the battle over. While I don’t mind the energy poured into it, since it generates content and I like content, I do mind the characterization that it’s a relatively new battle, one that is just on a sort […]
I have a Google alert set up to tell me when media discusses Bulletin Board Systems. What can I say, I like to be on the cutting edge. People often cite BBSes in two main areas: discussing China, and as a reference of how we don’t do things that way anymore. One of the articles […]
My friend Charlie officially announced he was sick of me showing people cool new stuff I’d downloaded at my editing station in my office. It’s a nice editing station, a nice office and (often enough) really cool stuff, but any more than two people and you just can’t see the screens. “Get this stuff on […]
Well, I’m sure all the parties involved were quaking in their boots to find out which side Bovine Ignition Systems was going to come down on, but after spending some time on the issue, I’m going to cautiously throw my support behind HD DVD as the likely format my next two movies will be produced […]
Actual real content from me shortly. I have about 4 articles in mid-workover, and yes, I really do write articles/essays that aren’t stream of consciousness. But this little exchange is hard to pass up sharing. Note that we’re discussing a file on textfiles.com, and I’m wondering if I’m wearing a little glowy green uniform with […]
With my general articles, talks and whatnot about Wikipedia now in the two-years-old stage, I’ve had a lot of chance to get feedback and to go out and look up my name and find commentary about it. The ones that fell into the “read, comprehended, responded” approach often got mail from me. The ones that […]
Permit me the indulgence of imploring the world to go play some games. As mentioned previously, I have been working on a second documentary besides the text adventure movie GET LAMP. This second one is about arcades and is called Arcade: The Documentary. My travels took me through Seattle (where I interviewed a developer of […]
His name is Julien McArdle, but I kept calling him Justin. I called him Justin so many times during the HOPE conference this past weekend that I figured he’d just punch me out, but I guess he’s a gentler soul than that. Don’t ask me why I kept doing this, but I kept calling him […]
From: O’Reilly Conferences To: jason@textfiles.com Subject: Speaker Details for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2006 Dear Jason, Your final session dates and times follow for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2006 in Portland, Oregon, July 24-28, 2006: – Conference Keynote Title: Making Tech Documentaries: How and Why Date: 07/27/2006 Time: 9:45am to 10:00am Session ID: […]
Two stories and a manifesto. When I was in my senior year of high school, I was inspired by the Hofstra University humor magazine Nonsense to put together a humor magazine. Teaming up with two other buddies, John and Alex, we created a magazine called EsnesnoN, which was, of course, “Nonsense” backwards. The rules for […]